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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The Regulation of Intelligence Activities under
Book SynopsisPresenting a thorough examination of intelligence activities in international law, Sophie Duroy provides theoretical and empirical justifications to support the cutting-edge claim that states’ compliance with international law in intelligence matters serves their national security interests. This book theorises the regulation of intelligence activities under international law, identifying three layers of regulation: a clear legal framework governing intelligence activities (legality); a capacity to enforce state responsibility (accountability); and the integration of legality and accountability into responsive regulation by the international legal order (compliance). The empirical relevance of these three layers of regulation is demonstrated through in-depth case studies of state responsibility in the CIA-led war on terror and an analysis of the accountability of Djibouti, the Gambia, Poland, the United Kingdom, and the United States for conduct in the CIA-led war on terror. Overall, the author shows that the most reliable path to long-term national security is the effective regulation of intelligence activities under international law. Making an original contribution to existing theories of compliance and regulation, as well as the law of state responsibility and its enforcement, this book will be essential for students and scholars of public international law, human rights, intelligence and security studies, and international relations. It will also be a valuable resource for practitioners of international law with an interest in intelligence, state responsibility, and terrorism and security law.Trade Review‘This exceptionally rich book deals with important and topical issues of international law and human rights, namely the international law governing intelligence agencies and their oversight, as well as accountability for the phenomenon of secret detention and torture in the so-called war on terror. It manages to combine the treatment of these two themes into a single coherent line of research. But the study does much more than that. It is methodologically highly diverse and advanced, combining doctrinal legal analysis with behavioural approaches concerning state compliance and developing models of semi-quantification and network analysis to explain why and how accountability matters for whether states choose to comply with international law. On the basis of these different but intertwined lines of research, it then argues that compliance with international law serves the national security interests of states. The outcome is highly impressive, signalling the author’s emergence as a prominent scholar, an innovative and original thinker, and a theorist.’ -- Martin Scheinin, University of Oxford, UK‘International regulation of the second oldest profession was long characterised by hypocrisy: states denounced what they routinely (if clandestinely) did themselves. In this book, Sophie Duroy argues that the years after September 11, 2001, put enormous pressure on the nascent norms regulating intelligence activities — and, counter-intuitively, strengthened those norms as a result.’ -- Simon Chesterman, National University of Singapore‘Dr Duroy’s book provides a sophisticated analysis of the application of international law to the work of the intelligence community. But more than that, it explores how states can be held accountable for their unlawful intelligence activities. By focusing on issues of accountability and compliance, this book brings new research to the debate and should be widely read by security studies scholars, international lawyers, practitioners, and policymakers.’ -- Russell Buchan, University of Sheffield, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction to The Regulation of Intelligence Activities under International Law PART I LEGALITY 2. Intelligence activities and international law 3. Mapping state responsibility in the CIA war on terror PART II ACCOUNTABILITY 4. International legal accountability for an internationally wrongful act resulting from intelligence activities 5. Effective accountability 6. International legal accountability in the CIA war on terror PART III COMPLIANCE 7. State compliance with international law in intelligence matters: a behavioural approach 8. Epilogue: comprehensive regulation in the twenty-first-century security landscape Index
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd British Intelligence and the Fenians 18551880
Book SynopsisShows how mid-Victorian efforts to gather information about the Fenians laid the foundation for later British domestic intelligence in both Ireland and mainland Britain.
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Liverpool University Press A Balancing Act: British Intelligence in Spain
Book SynopsisThis book reveals the development, strategy and extraordinary success of Britains secret services in Francos Spain during the Second World War. The main claim of this study is that British pressure, exercised above all through their intelligence services, led Franco to distance himself from the Axis cause and eventually embrace that of the Allies. Starting from a virtually non-existent base, the British rapidly built up a complex intelligence network in Spain that stretched from Corunna to Barcelona and from Bilbao to Gibraltar. As Spain was a non-belligerent, spy networks including those of the Germans, Italians, Portuguese and British proliferated in the Iberian Peninsula. Double-agents abounded within these networks; each one knew what the others were up to. The British exploited this two-way traffic to let Franco know that if he did not accede to their demands, they would back a restoration of the Bourbon monarchy under Don Juan. This pressure culminated in the meeting of 1943 between Franco and the British Ambassador, Sir Samuel Hoare, at the dictators country retreat in Galicia, the British underlining their purpose by flying warplanes close by the estate. Following this meeting, Franco almost immediately began to move away from the Axis powers and towards the Allies. The British swiftly dismantled their intelligence networks given that they had achieved their aim. Francos expulsion of the German naval forces from Spanish ports and the denazification of the regime explains the benevolent attitude of the Allies towards the Spanish dictatorship after the war. Throughout this whole process, the British secret service, as this extensively researched study uncovers, played a crucial role.
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Liverpool University Press A Balancing Act: British Intelligence in Spain
Book SynopsisThis book reveals the development, strategy and extraordinary success of Britains secret services in Francos Spain during the Second World War. The main claim of this study is that British pressure, exercised above all through their intelligence services, led Franco to distance himself from the Axis cause and eventually embrace that of the Allies. Starting from a virtually non-existent base, the British rapidly built up a complex intelligence network in Spain that stretched from Corunna to Barcelona and from Bilbao to Gibraltar. As Spain was a non-belligerent, spy networks including those of the Germans, Italians, Portuguese and British proliferated in the Iberian Peninsula. Double-agents abounded within these networks; each one knew what the others were up to. The British exploited this two-way traffic to let Franco know that if he did not accede to their demands, they would back a restoration of the Bourbon monarchy under Don Juan. This pressure culminated in the meeting of 1943 between Franco and the British Ambassador, Sir Samuel Hoare, at the dictators country retreat in Galicia, the British underlining their purpose by flying warplanes close by the estate. Following this meeting, Franco almost immediately began to move away from the Axis powers and towards the Allies. The British swiftly dismantled their intelligence networks given that they had achieved their aim. Francos expulsion of the German naval forces from Spanish ports and the denazification of the regime explains the benevolent attitude of the Allies towards the Spanish dictatorship after the war. Throughout this whole process, the British secret service, as this extensively researched study uncovers, played a crucial role.
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Bokforlaget Stolpe Spies in History From Antiquity to the Present
Book SynopsisOur fascination with spies, both real and fictional, seems endless. But when and where did the history of espionage begin, and how has the craft of spying evolved over the centuries? Spies in History is a collection of portraits featuring some of the most famous spies, as well as lesser-known and more surprising figures
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Taylor & Francis Advanced Criminal Investigations and Intelligence Operations
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Intelligence Agencies Technology and Knowledge
Book SynopsisThis volume examines intelligence services since 1945 in their role as knowledge producers.Intelligence agencies are producers and providers of arcane information. However, little is known about the social, cultural and material dimensions of their knowledge production, processing and distribution. This volume starts from the assumption that during the Cold War, these core activities of information services underwent decisive changes, of which scientization and computerisation are essential. With a focus on the emerging alliances between intelligence agencies, science and (computer) technology, the chapters empirically explore these transformations and are characterised by innovative combinations of intelligence history with theoretical considerations from the history of science and technology and the history of knowledge.At the same time, the book challenges the bipolarity of Cold War history in general and of intelligence history in particular in favour of comparativTable of ContentsThe Knowledge of Intelligence Agencies in the Cold War World: An Introduction Rüdiger Bergien, Debora Gerstenberger, and Constantin Goschler 1. Compromised Cooperation: Researchers on Eastern Europe in the Service of Intelligence in West Germany after 1945 Thomas Wolf 2. Dogma versus Progress: KGB’s Scientific and Technological Surveillance (In-) Capacities from the 1960s to the 1980s Evgenia Lezina 3. Mission Impossible: The Difficult Consolidation of Strategic Intelligence in the United States During the Cold War Andreas Lutsch 4. American Security Databases and the Production of Space, 1967–1974: Enhancing or Obscuring Patterns? Jens Wegener 5. Knowledge Transfer and Technopolitics: The CIA, the West German Intelligence Service, and the Digitization of Information Processing in the 1960s Rüdiger Bergien 6. Information Technology is Power: The Intelligence Service’s Grab for the Digital Computing Sector in Brazil Marcelo Vianna 7. The Computer as Document Shredder: Video Terminals and the Dawn of a New Era of Knowledge Production in Brazil’s Serviço Nacional de Informações (SNI) Debora Gerstenberger 8. Turkish Intelligence, Surveillance and the Secrets of the Cold War: Blocked Modernization? Egemen Bezci 9. Solid Modernity: Data Storage and Information Circuits in the Communist Security Police in Poland Franciszek Dabrowski 10. Perceptions of Digital Computers at the German Domestic Intelligence Service: Eliminating the Human Factor? Christopher Kirchberg 11. Global Intelligence Academies: Information Schools during the Civil-Military Dictatorship in Brazil Samantha Viz Quadrat 12. Intelligence Public Relations: The Annual Reports on the Protection of the Constitution in West Germany Marcel Schmeer Conclusion Rüdiger Bergien, Debora Gerstenberger, and Constantin Goschler
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Chinese Election Interference in Taiwan
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Intelligence Analysis Fundamentals
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Taylor & Francis Intelligence in the Cold War What Difference did it Make
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Taylor & Francis Swedish Signal Intelligence 19001945 Studies in Intelligence
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Strategic Intelligence in the Cold War and Beyond
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Taylor & Francis Ltd A Sense of Place An Intimate Portrait of the NiebaumCoppola Winery and the Napa Valley
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Leaders and Intelligence
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Policing Politics Security Intelligence and the Liberal Democratic State Studies in Intelligence
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Leaders and Intelligence 6 Studies in Intelligence
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Policing Politics Security Intelligence and the Liberal Democratic State Studies in Intelligence
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Knowing Your Friends
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Taylor & Francis Knowing Your Friends Intelligence Inside Alliances and Coalitions from 1914 to the Cold War Studies in Intelligence
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Secrets of Signals Intelligence During the Cold War From Cold War to Globalization Studies in Intelligence
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Swedish Signal Intelligence 19001945 Studies in Intelligence
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Intelligence Services in the Information Age Theory and Practice Studies in Intelligence
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Democratic Control of Intelligence Services Containing Rogue Elephants
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Taylor & Francis Ltd KGB Operations against the USA and Canada in
Book SynopsisOriented for a general reading audience, this book gives a unique and rare perspective on the KGB special operations in Soviet Ukraine, which targeted especially the USA and Canada, using issues related to Soviet Ukrainian identity and cultural diplomacy of Soviet Ukraine after Stalin's death in 1953 until the perestroika of the 1980s. Concentrating on the period of the Cold War after Stalin and combining the counterintelligence documents from the KGB archive in Kyiv, Ukraine, with the official KGB correspondence and reports to the political leadership of Soviet Ukraine, this book offers an experimental view of the political and cultural history of relations between Soviet Ukraine and capitalist America through the prism of KGB operations against the US and Canada. Written from a hidden perspective of KGB operations from 1953 to the end of the 1980s, this book covers intelligence and counter-intelligence operations and the active measures of the KGB, but also various prTable of ContentsIntroduction: Rise and Fall of the KGB in Soviet Ukraine after Stalin; Part I: Creating Models for the Special KGB Operations against the USA and Canada after WWII; Chapter 1: Legacy of the World War II: Ukrainian Nationalists in Diaspora and the Spy Schools in West Germany; Chapter 2: The Legacy of the Early Cold War: Re-Immigrants, the KGB Double Agents and "Zionist Jews"; Chapter 3: Communists and the Political Left in Capitalist America: A Case of Peter Krawchuk and John Kolasky; Chapter 4: Arnold Shlepakov, Ukrainian Diaspora in America, and Academic Exchanges; Part II: The KGB vs. Politicians and Tourists from "Capitalist America"; Chapter 5: "Shpionomania," or the American Spies Hysteria in Soviet Ukraine; Chapter 6: The US Exhibitions and Technological/Industrial Espionage; Chapter 7: "Using the American Officials": From the KGB-CIA Collaboration to the Meddling in the US Politics; Part III: The KGB of Soviet Ukraine in the Cultural Cold War against Capitalist America; Chapter 8: KGB Special Operations, Cultural Consumption and the Youth Culture in Soviet Ukraine; Chapter 9: "American Influences" in Forbidden Literature, Non-Traditional Religions, Music, Video and Sex; Epilogue: "Learning from the Main Adversary" and Returning to the Soviet Anti-American and Anti-Fascist Scenario; Selected Bibliography
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Cambridge University Press Intelligence for an Age of Terror
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Cambridge University Press Intelligence and Espionage in the Reign of Charles II 1660 1685
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Cambridge University Press Intelligence Power in Peace and War
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Cambridge University Press Empire and Information
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Cambridge University Press Early Cold War Spies
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Cambridge University Press Cambridge Student Guide to King Lear Cambridge Student Guides
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Cambridge University Press Early Cold War Spies
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc For the Presidents Eyes Only Secret Intelligence
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Liar Temptress Soldier Spy
Book Synopsis“Not for nothing has Abbott been called a ‘pioneer of sizzle history.’ Here she creates a gripping page-turner that moves at a breathtaking clip through the dramatic events of the Civil War.” — Los Angeles TimesKaren Abbott, the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City and “pioneer of sizzle history” (USA Today), tells the spellbinding true story of four women - a socialite, a farmgirl, an abolitionist, and a widow - who risked everything to become spies during the Civil War.After shooting a Union soldier in her front hall with a pocket pistol, Belle Boyd became a courier and spy for the Confederate army, using her charms to seduce men on both sides. Emma Edmonds cut off her hair and assumed the identity of a man to enlist as a Union private, witnessing the bloodiest battles of the Civil War. The beautiful widow, Rose O’Nea
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Spooked
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Shadow State
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Russians Among Us
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Spy Who Knew Too Much
Book Synopsis“Howard Blum writes history books that read like thrillers.”—New York TimesA retired spy gets back into the game to solve a perplexing case—and reconcile with his daughter, a CIA officer who married into the very family that derailed his own CIA career—in this compulsive true-life tale of vindication and redemption, filled with drama, intrigue, and mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of The Last Goodnight, It’s a real-life thriller whose stunning conclusion will make headline news. On a sunlit morning in September 1978, a sloop drifts aimlessly across the Chesapeake Bay. The cabin reveals signs of a struggle, and “classified” documents, live 9 mm cartridges, and a top-secret “burst” satellite communications transmitter are discovered aboard. But where is the boat’s owner, former CIA officer John Paisley? One man
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Lion and the Fox
Book SynopsisTrade Review“The complex Confederate conspiracy to fabricate a navy in secret, and the equally energetic Union efforts to stymie it, form the backdrop for Alexander Rose’s entertaining and deeply researched account of the espionage battle that took place among the Liverpool docks, with a rich cast of spies, crooks, bent businessmen and drunken sailors…Rose relates the tale with gusto.” — New York Times “With the contest of wits and bribes between Confederate special agent James Bulloch and American consul Thomas Dudley, Alexander Rose has proven that true history is indeed stranger than fiction. This account of Confederate machinations in Liverpool to get Rebel warships built in British shipyards is peopled by a colorful array of special agents, detectives, spies, dockyard toughs, and a Southern mole in the British Foreign Office.” — James M. McPherson, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of War on the Waters: The Union and Confederate Navies, 1861–1865 “Intrigue lovers and Civil War buffs are in for a treat! The Lion and the Fox guides its readers through the shadow war between Confederate and Union agents in England—one trying to procure ships for the Rebel Navy, the other determined to thwart his rival. It is a little-known corner of history but one that is a pleasure to explore in this author’s skilled hands.” — Nicholas Reynolds, New York Times bestselling author of Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy: Ernest Hemingway’s Secret Adventures, 1935–1961 “Historian Rose delivers an entertaining chronicle of the battle of wits between a Confederate spy and a Union agent in England during the early years of the Civil War. . . . Rose’s indelible character sketches and firm grasp of the industrial and political milieu of 19th-century Britain enrich the contest of wills between Bulloch and Dudley. This spy-versus-spy tale delights.” — Publishers Weekly “A very interesting and informative story that follows the machination, maneuverings, and politics that influenced what went on behind the scenes…For those wishing to be engaged and even better informed on this Civil War maritime give-and-take, look no further than this well-written and researched volume.” — New York Journal of Books “Historian Rose (Washington’s Spies: The Story of America’s First Spy Ring) masterfully delivers an exciting tale of plots and schemes among the shipyards, docks, and government offices of Liverpool and London.” — Library Journal
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Secret Life of John Le Carre
Book SynopsisThe extraordinary secret life of a great novelist, which his biographer could not publish while le Carré was alive. Secrecy came naturally to John le Carré, and there were some secrets that he fought fiercely to keep. Adam Sisman''s definitive biography, published in 2015, provided a revealing portrait of this fascinating man; yet some aspects of his subject remained hidden.Nowhere was this more so than in his private life. Apparently content in his marriage, the novelist conducted a string of love affairs over five decades. To these relationships he brought much of the tradecraft that he had learned as a spy - cover stories, cut-outs and dead letter boxes. These clandestine operations brought an element of danger to his life, but they also meant deceiving those closest to him. Small wonder that betrayal became a running theme in his work.In trying to manage his biography, the novelist engaged in a succession of skirmishes wi
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Secret History of MI6 19091949
Book SynopsisThe authorized history of the world's oldest and most storied foreign intelligence service, drawing extensively on hitherto secret documentsBritain's Special Intelligence Service, commonly called MI6, is not only the oldest and most storied foreign intelligence unit in the world - it is also the only one to open its archives to an outside researcher. The result, in this authorized history, is an unprecedented and revelatory look at an organization that essentially created, over the course of two world wars, the modern craft of spying. Here are the true stories that inspired Ian Fleming's James Bond's novels and John le Carré George Smiley novels. Examining innovations from invisible ink and industrial-scale cryptography to dramatic setbacks like the Nazi sting operations to bag British operatives, this groundbreaking history is as engrossing as any thriller - and much more revealing.Perhaps the most authentic account one will ever read abou
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Penguin Random House India Kitne Ghazi Aaye Kitne Ghazi Gaye
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Oxford University Press Offensive Cyber Operations
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OUP India Russian Hybrid Warfare
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OUP India The Sacred Republic
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The University of Chicago Press The Hunt for Nazi Spies Fighting Espionage in
Book SynopsisFrom 1940 to 1942, French arrested many spies working for Germans and executed them despite the Vichy government's declared collaboration with the Third Reich. This book chronicles the Vichy regime's attempts to maintain sovereignty while supporting its Nazi occupiers. It also illuminates the complex agendas that characterized the collaboration.Trade Review"The pungent details give Kitson's book a particular force: the incidents of head-shearing, the intimations of torture, the leakages back to the German authorities of the places where the spies were held, the contempt of the Vichy secret services for British agents.... All these elements make an English edition of the book a necessity." - Rod Kedward, Times Literary Supplement, on the French edition "Simon Kitson has drawn from intensive study of French archives the first full picture of Vichy's counterintelligence activities. We can now see more clearly how Vichy France tried (ultimately unsuccessfully) to collaborate with Nazi Germany as a sovereign and neutral state, master of its own territory and administration." - Robert O. Paxton, author of Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order"
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Yale University Press The Secret World A History of Intelligence
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Hachette Books We Are All Targets How Renegade Hackers Invented
Book SynopsisThe incredible, untold origin story of cyberwar and the hackers who unleashed it on the world, tracing their journey from the ashes of the Cold War to the criminal underworld, governments, and even Silicon Valley--while the Pandora's Box they opened changed the world foreverTwo years before 9/11, the United States was attacked by an unknown enemy. No advance warning was given, and civilians weren't the target. Instead, tomahawk missiles started missing their targets, US agents were swept up by hostile governments, and America’s enemies seemed to know its every move in advance. The Pentagon was so confused that its distress call simply read: “This shouldn’t be happening.” A new phase of warfare—cyberwar—had arrived. And within two decades, it escaped Pandora's Box, plunging us into a state of total war where every day, countless cyber attacks perpetrated by mercenaries and states are reshaping the world.
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Back Bay Books The Bastard Brigade The True Story of the
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